Refreshing to find this on Blsky today. I just complained to Elsevier JARHE about this exact thing and rejected the paper (it shld not have been accepted for PR). I also now will not review any paper thats obv grifting "AI research" to bump up publishing record. Foff.
This quote (left picture) in the HSJ claiming the NHS is not "locked in" with Palantir is a bit baffling. If lock in isn't high barriers to switching, then what is it?
The image on the right is a quote from the government digital service defining lock in in almost exactly those terms
Cervical cancer death rates in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950 Reported deaths from cervical cancer per 100,000 women. In 1950, there were 8.6 deaths from cervical cancer per 100,000 women By 2021, this had fallen to 1.7
Your slow news story for the day: Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950 from 8.6 deaths per 100,000 women to 1.7
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org
New Luddism is a growing issue, not just for AI stuff but all of it.
I think JISC style 'digital transformation' of higher education could be in deep trouble.
penworks.net/blog/techno-feudalism-an...
hello to bluesky on this lovely morning in the sunny Mediterranean. I dont expect interaction here, but Im being nice anyway
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Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.
Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.
In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth over immediate results. In contrast, current AI systems are fundamentally short-sighted collaborators - optimized for providing instant and complete responses, without ever saying no (unless for safety reasons). What are the consequences of this dynamic? Here, through a series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions (N = 1,222), we provide causal evidence for two key consequences of AI assistance: reduced persistence and impairment of unassisted performance. Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up. Notably, these effects emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes). These findings are particularly concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and is one of the strongest predictors of long-term learning. We posit that persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers, thereby denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own. These results suggest the need for AI model development to prioritize scaffolding long-term competence alongside immediate task completion.
**AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance. **A paper from researchers at Oxford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon and UCLA that needs to be seen by everyone in the education community.
Full Abstract in alt text.
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chatgpt output circa 2022.
ChatGPT circa 2022. I requested to delete my account yesterday. I used it 5 times. At least it wasnt trying to tell me how sexy I looked, which it probably would now.
120 being sacked from London Met. Of course there are UK unis that will go under soon, no doubt. Meanwhile Erasmus EU students wont pay UK fees for average UG study. In Germany its €0 for probably a better experience. Even for foreign students! Britain went really wrong somewhere.
Yes is winning on 58%
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Very sad to hear that today London Met are again striking to try and save 120 lecturing and technician jobs. One sign said students want human tutors not chatbots. LonMet has always been at the sharp end of HE policy and cuts. God knows I was one of those people a while back.
Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
The stone wall in the studio area with morning sun lighting up various object d'art, including Tutankhamun's head wearing easy riders, vases holding reeds and dried first cone and decorative art objects, a tree trunk section painted, plastic green climbers, round baskets, a paper fan...
Good morning from The Rock.
(Mediterranean morning, 7am, my place, the studio.)
“As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine, according to the proposed class-action complaint filed Tuesday in federal court…”
Ladies and Gentlemen: The AI book grift.
The addiction attraction.
Are we addicted to life as techno-solutionism in all forms? Are we addicted to using any apps just because it feels like fun, a game, entertainment?
https://mementomori.social/@penworks/116305774735970178
Do you know anyone who shows signs of AI psychosis? I do. This Grdn article has a link to the Human Line Project, a Stanford partnered big research project gathering data from people, about their experiences of AI Psych.
We cannot teach everyone to 'use chatbots responsibly'. We can't even […]
Ladies and Gentlemen: The AI book grift.
- AI scraping not fair use bc of vast profit made by AI Co's, and amount of content scraped
- fair use is a US construct, interpreted differently elsewhere.(www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/murky-...
- decision contrary to EFF standards.
- breaks CC licences.
- AI scraping not fair use bc of vast profit made by AI Co's, and amount of content scraped
- fair use is a US construct, interpreted differently elsewhere.(www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/murky-...
- decision contrary to EFF standards.
- breaks CC licences.
from what youre sharing about the text, its written with AI. Chatty and super social influencer style orientated marketspeak is a hallmark of chatty chatbot output. Esp if its that kind of person thats been using the chatbot acct being used to make this *bilge*.
An edited version of an academic journal AI policy statement, with additional truthful factors, mostly about making the cheating sound convincing if authors use AI.
The new T&F guidelines for editors when accepting paper submissions.
#humor #funny #ai #fakepapers #academia #academicchatter #academicpublishing
it's a really complicated story, because a certain kind of upper-class feminism participated actively in its destruction. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...
i spend years as an archivist and in the archives as a historian, and you become extremely conscious of the fact that secretarial labor organized the lives and memory of an organization in a way computers promised to replicate, but never did, but they did manage to displace it.
"Race to the bottom" for competitive Large Language Models (LLMs).
El and Zou (2025)
"...it remains poorly understood how competitive feedback loops influence LLM behavior. We show that optimizing LLMs for competitive success can inadvertently drive misalignment."
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06105
It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.
